This principle was reaffirmed by the United Nations Declaration on the Granting Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples9 which states that "All peoples have the right to self-determination; by virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development" (...) and that "All armed action or repressive measures of all kinds directed against dependent peoples shall cease in order to enable them to exercise peacefully and freely their right to complete independence, and the integrity of their national terr...

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